text: Flockhart was born at Annacroich, Kinross-shire near Loch Leven, baptised on 30 November 1808, the sixth child of seven, to William Flockhart and his wife Euphemia née Mudie. His brother Robert, a surgeon on the ship HMS Brisk died of fever near Sierra Leone (aged 25); and he had previously worked with Dr Knox of Edinburgh on experiments with writer Walter Scott.
  When Flockhart married on 31 October 1860, at the age 52, his wife Jane Henderson was twenty-five years younger (born 1833). They then lived at Seaforth Cottage, 29 York Road, Edinburgh.  Three of their children died in infancy, but their first son William born 1861 and daughter Jane Edith outlived their parents.
  Flockhart died on 24 August 1871, aged 62 years.
  Flockharts burial site is at 58°5810.9"N, 3°11'47.5"W in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh and has a memorial grey marble or granite obelisk with the inscription on the front plinth (North Face) which reads:
  ' IN MEMORY OF
  WILLIAM FLOCKHART
  L.R.C.S.E
  OF ANNACROICH KINROSS-SHIRE
  CHEMIST IN EDINBURGH
  WHO DIED 24TH AUGUST 1871
  AGED 62 YEARS
  AND
  JANE HENDERSON
  HIS WIFE
  WHO DIED 2ND DECEMBER 1891
  AGED 58 YEARS'.
  Family memorial
  On other faces of the plinth are inscriptions (on West face) in memory of three children who died in infancy: John George (born 1860) died 19 October 1864, aged 23 months,; Euphemia died 27 December 1868, aged 3 weeks; Isabella Mary died 6 January 1869 aged 4 years. Children of William and Jane Flockhart. And (on East face - son) William Flockhart of Annacroich died 21 September 1924, aged 63 years and Jane Edith Flockhart his sister died 24 November 1930.